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Gil Z. Hochberg is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at UCLA. She is the author of In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Visual Politics at a Conflict Zone 1Part I. Concealment1. Visible Invisibility: On Ruins, Erasure, and Haunting 372. From Invisible Spectators to the Spectacle of Terror: Chronicles of a Contested Citizenship 57Part II. Surveillance3. The (Soldier's) Gaze and the (Palestinian) Body: Power, Fantasy, and Desire in the Militarized Contact Zone 794. Visual Rights and the Prospect of Exchange: The Photographic Event Placed under Duress 97Part III. Witnessing5. "Nothing to Look At"; or, "For Whom Are You Shooting?": The Imperative to Witness and the Menace of the Global Gaze 1156. Shooting War: On Witnessing One's Failure to See (on Time) 139Closing Words 163Notes 167Bibliography 187Index 207